Professor Doug Bruce from Laney College will talk about implementing at-home biotech kits in his introductory biotech lab class. Doug adopted kits and curriculum from The Odin, a Bay Area biotech company that sells “biohacking" kits, and provided students with all the equipment they would need to complete the labs at home. In addition, Doug will show how his students are using an electronic laboratory notebook (ELN) for collecting data. Read more about pandemic-inspired innovation at Laney College: How can a college biotech program survive the pandemic? Laney students bring synthetic biology
As you adapt to new and changing teaching environments, you may be wondering how you can best offer your students the benefit of laboratory experiences. Join us for this webinar with Bio-Rad Explorer curriculum specialists to discuss how to adapt Bio-Rad’s classroom kits to achieve your teaching goals this fall. Learn about Bio-Rad’s Solutions for Socially-Distanced Classrooms SPEAKERS: Tamica Stubbs and Leigh Brown, Curriculum Training Specialists, Bio-Rad Laboratories In this first webinar of our Fall series, Leigh and Tamica will discuss the following: Classroom lab experiences that can
Additional resources: LabCorp COVID-19 Testing Overview: Go inside a lab and see how LabCorp performs tests for COVID-19. Polymerase Chain Reaction (Interactive): Click through this animation to follow PCR amplification step-by-step. Then look at the amplification graph to see how many DNA molecules are produced after 30 cycles of PCR. Polymerase Chain Reaction (Video): Watch this narrated 3D animation of PCR at the molecular level.
